Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/August
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- August 6, 1760 - During the French and Indian War, the British garrison at Fort Loudon in Tennessee fell to the Cherokee.
- August 6, 1945 - The first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, Japan, using enriched uranium produced in the secret city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and revealing the purpose of the Manhattan Project.
- August 16, 1977 - Elvis Presley, singer, musician and actor, died in his Graceland mansion in Memphis.
- August 17, 1786 - Davy Crockett, folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician, was born in Greene County, Tennessee.
- August 18, 1920 - Harry T. Burn of Niota cast the deciding vote as the Tennessee House of Representatives voted, by a one-vote margin, to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, making Tennessee the last state needed for ratification and thus granting women the right to vote.
- August 21, 1974 - Death (from an automobile crash) of former McNairy County sheriff Buford Pusser, whose virtual one-man war on moonshining, gambling and other vices on the Mississippi-Tennessee border inspired the 1973 movie Walking Tall, related books and movies, and at least one TV series.
- August 23, 1784 - Delegates from four North Carolina counties (all parts of the modern state of Tennessee) convened in the town of Jonesborough and declared their lands independent of North Carolina; this was the first step in the formation of the State of Franklin.
- August 27, 1956 - Twelve African American students attended the first day of classes at Clinton High School, marking the first desegregation of a state-supported high school in the southern United States.
